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...conduit to the outside world. With more reporters and cameras in Iraqi cities, Arab networks often have better camera positions on aerial attacks and show much more of what those pretty explosions wreak bloodily on the street. U.S. TV tends to treat civilian victims in the context of showing allied medics helping them, and some of its coverage of the war's effects on civilians is insultingly picturesque. ABC'S Peter Jennings narrated a travelogue-like "portrait gallery" that included a still image of healthy Iraqi kids walking in the rubble. "Don't you always wonder," he intoned unctuously, "what...
Abbas, 30, a carpenter and father of two, says his whole family was mowed down at once. His story: fedayeen in civilian clothes rolled an antiaircraft gun into his backyard. Abbas, having seen his neighbor protest and get a bullet in the head in front of his children, didn't say a word. "They started firing at American helicopters," he says. "The Americans started returning fire ... We had to leave...
Major Geracci, 35, a flight surgeon, knows that his Cobra attack-helicopter pilots caused some civilian casualties. "All the choppers see when they fly over Nasiriyah are civilians shooting Kalashnikovs out of their windows," says Geracci. "The pilots were talking about blowing up houses the next time they went in. They need to know that the civilians are not fighting against them." But the sound of mortar fire in the distance that night makes it clear that there are plenty of Iraqis out there...
...Clearly Bush meant to remind the world of his determination to finish off Saddam's regime, but his impatient tone simultaneously underscored that the task was proving more difficult than many had anticipated. The allied wave of steel pushing into Iraq had been slowed by sandstorms and guerrilla attacks. Civilian casualties were adding up. Having apparently survived the U.S.'s first-day attempt to kill him, Saddam seemed to be in command...
...aversion to suffering losses and inflicting civilian casualties has helped Saddam's small bands of loyalists cling to control of the cities, from which they hope to drag the U.S. into a frustrating, Vietnam-style guerrilla conflict. "People say to me, 'You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps to hide in,'" Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told one interviewer last year. "I reply, 'Let our cities be our swamps and our buildings be our jungles...